Quotes about Gardening

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”

“I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.”

“The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.”

“Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”

“I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.”

“There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.”

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

“I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.”

“I do the gardening.”

“I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.”

“I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.”

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

“Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.”

“Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.”

“Use plants to bring life.”

“Flowers are happy things.”

“It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.”

“I'm always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I'm into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.”

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”